::Through The Years::

A Child’s Love

I carried you on an amazing journey; close to my heart; near the depths of my soul. My arms could not hold you but my heart held you and every thought of you. You were a part of me on my journey to motherhood. I could not see you and yet, my heart felt a love for you like I had never felt before in my life. Surrounded by my thoughts of you, I realized that your tiny little heart had given me a gift of love; though how I could not understand…. But by the Grace of God, how could that be?

I yearned for the day when I could see your little face; I did not understand that God held the picture of you long before I dreamed of you. I sat in quiet and I whispered, “What do you look like, My Little One”? You did not cry; no voice could be heard in return. Then one day, from the part of me where you lay and in a moment of my silence with you…….. You moved…...

It was if a butterfly had tried to spread it’s tiny wings within me; leaving behind a cocoon of yesterday. It was in that moment when I realized that you were preparing your own little journey into my world; you just wanted me to know that you “Were”. And days passed; and weeks passed and I dreamed of the day when I would hold you in my arms.

You continued to reach your little arms out to my heart and soul and filled them with a depth of wonder! And when you were ready for this world my little Gift from God…. You had filled my heart, you had touched my soul and you were born to me….

And as I held you in my arms, I placed your little hand in mine and I whispered,

“Thank you”!

Millie P. Lorenz